An Efficient Detector Production Method for Position-Sensitive Scintillation Detector Arrays with 98% Detector Packing Fraction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1469-1476

  Uribe, Jorge ^a,b   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a,b   Baghaei, Hossain ^a,b   Farrell, Rocio ^a,b   Li, Hongdi ^a,b   Aykac, Mehmet ^b   Bilgen, D ^b   Liu, Yaqiang ^b   Wang, Yu ^b   Xing, Tao ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Photodetectors; Position sensitive detectors; Positron emission tomography (PET); Quadrant sharing detectors; Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CRYSTALS; PHOTODETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

QUADRANT SHARING DETECTORS;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 10744226730     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817959     Document Type: Article

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